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THE HUSTLER OF ROML
Kstabli.hed, 1890.
’’’HE ROME COMMERCIAL
Established. 1895.
KuvO every {evening. exeipt Satmday.
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PHIL G. BYRD,
H I'l Ch AND M/NAGIR.
Atlanta had the onliest peace
jubilee of them all.
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The cold snap gives the plumb
er a chance to cinch a soft snap.
Speaking of the present,
Chrietma* seeaas to be a buy —
word.
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VTLeu a man like Esterhazy is
aot found forging to the front
he ie certainly i•formed—or lost.
When you see a physician
loafing you will note that he is
keeping his hand in by killing
time.
Whether a financial frost
nipt the Cheristmas purse or no,
the new leaves are ready to
turn.
‘HurT* --w '■ ■
A diamond of tae first water
is one that has broken the ice
and gone in soak for the first
time.
While it is more blessed to
give than to receive don’t look
your Christmas present in the
price mark,
W MiWU ! WES
if all men would do like the
Utah congressman there would
Boon be a deficit in the old maid
product.
Just now it’s said there’s an
epidemic of kleptomania in tin
big cities. It’s called epidemic
because it’s taking. . '
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ygl! LUI ■■■■■' WILL
And now comes Gsn. Merritt,
who tells us th.“t Dewey is m
goed health and the pink of
coeditioi for a fight.
McKinley not only believes in
expansion for the government,
but proposes to take in Cuba and
Porto Rico, personally.
Carnegio is opposed to expand,
ing and absorbing the Philip
pines, but he doesn’t particular
ly mind taking in Scotland.
The administration thinks
that it will require a standing
army es 100,Out to sit down on
the Cubans who run riot.
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Eagland preposes to make
Jamaica another key to the Nic
araguan canal. At this rate after
awhile it will have as many keys
ae locke
And now stories of terrible
distress and deprivation are
coming from the soldier hospit
als at Manila. Algerism has a
long arm.
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The utterances of Col. William
J. Rryan since leaving the army
have net been many, but they
have been pertinent, dignified
and forceabla.
Perhaps it is worthy of remark
that two ■ ational senators are
■ow before the courts, but all
men, great and small, h«vo
trials, such as they are.
Col. William J. Bryan dis
sents from the view that silver
is a dead issue. He sajs the
question is as strong teday as
ever and will not diminish.
Bryan and free silver may be
dead— but the Republican and
geldbag Democrat press keep
hammering away at them—and
as they are not “overly dead”
v Absolutely re >
Makes the food more delicious and u holeso\
they keep rousing up.
The story that Cattle Plunger
Gillett is in Mexico is mere
plausible than the first rumor
that he was in Spain. There is
nothing in Spain left for a man
with a scheme.
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Mr. McKinley tells us that all
sectionalism has died out. In
order that Ohio may be on a
parity with Georgia, the Presi
dent will now appoint a few ne
gro postmasters for the “buck
eye” towns,
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Cuba is likely to prove a cost
ly toy. With three or four armed
cruisers and 50,000 soldiers the
administration proposes to assist
the Cubans to establish a stable
government. Probably this is
the most formidable missionary
enterprise that any Christian
nation ever embarked upon.
Jot quin Miller lectured at
Chicago the other night, wear
ing the celebrated Klondike
reindeer suit, the buttons of
which are nuggets of solid gold,
valued at $1,700. Even a church
deacon would not object to find
ing a few such buttons in the
contribution box.
The hope of Spain to stop the
plotting against her by Don
Carlos by getting the govern
ni ’nt of Italy, where he now is,
t • tlu' aten 1 im with •xpuhion
is vain indeed. Don Carlos would
jtuniiuim .* plot against Spain—
ihGiiglY had him safe and
, under the wrtchful eyes of the
Sp-’iiieh majority in hades.
STMT’
The German army consists of
half a million men and the esti
mated expense of the army is
thirty one million dollars pet
year. Fur an army of 100,000
men, Secretary Gage’s report,
includes sl-45,000,000 for the
army . One fifth as many men
and five times as much money .
A crowd ®f woman in Grana
da, Spain, having decided that
Columbus was the cause of all
of Spain's misfortunes, took
what revenge they could upon
the great discoverer by stoning
his statue —truly a “rocky”
mob!
The Philippines want $20,-
000,000 from Spain as ransom
money for prisoners, but before
they get the money that Uncle
Sam gives Spain for a Christ
mat present, they will have to
walk all over Don Carlos’ dead
body.
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More thau 300,000 copies of
Bismarck’s autobiography are
rtportsd to have b< «n sold in
Germany alone in the first ten
days after it was put on the
market. The book was also put
on in N< j w York and London at
the same time. This eclipses all
records of any kind of fiction or
indeed of any book.
ABOUT CATARRH.
It i« ctuved by coldt or «uc
. cetsiot of wolds, combined with
impure blood. Ils symptoms art
paias in tl.e head, distbarga
from the nose, ringing aoises in
the ears. It is cured by Hood’s
Sarsaparilla which purifie# and
enriches the blood, soothes and
rebuilds the tissues and relieves
all the disagreeable sensations.
Heosl s Pills cure all liver ills,
Mailed for 25c. C. I. Hood A
Co., Lowell, Mass.
“Paraphrassng Lincoln’s dec
laration, I may add thatkhis na
tion cannot endure half republic
and half colony—half free and
half vassal. Our form of gov
ernment, our traditions, our
present interests and our future
welfare all forbid our entering
upon a career of conquest.”—
Wm. J. Brvan.
Any sensible man who steers
clear of the line of demagogy is
compelled to admit that, with a
large deficit in the finances of
the state ami rigid economy a
necessity, it would be perfectly
just and timely to provide that
pensions be paid only to ‘he
needy veterans apd the school
fund allowed only to give chil
dren the advantages of an ele
mentary education. Os course
there is a earned duty to perform
in dealing with these two ap
propriations, but that duty does
not call for extravagance in the
face of a deficit and with taxes
already burds isome. When leg
islators rise above demagogy
and stop playing to the grand
stand, then we may expect
some economic legislation on
the right line.—Jonesboro En
terprise.
Sir Arthur Sullivan as a choir
boy is an interesting subject in
“The Chorister’s Christmas”
published in the December issue
of “ the Nati< nil Magazine.’'
ihe author, Mr. Lihee, who
was a student at St. Mich
eal’s where Sir Arthur sang
Christmas caro's, gives an inter
esting account of how choir boys
enjoyed the Christmas festival
season in years past. “The Na
tional Magazine” makes every
page interesting.
That was all sensational
enough, the proposition of Pres
ident McKinley co have the
graves of our fallen brave cared
fcr, but, if our dead deserve this
recognition from the federal
government, are not our battle
scarred and maimed old heroes
entitled t) pension money? Why
the distinction, Mr. President?
M. Henri Lavedan was taken
and M. Zola was left in the
election to the vacant seat in
French Academy. This in
stitution seems to have
fallen into the bands of small
fry, and men of genius must Re
main on the outside.
Editor Phil Byrd makes this
deduction from divine history :
Adam couldn’t take a dare from
a woman—he masticated the
apple and raised Jain—and we
have all decended from that
stock.—Jonesboro Enterprise.
Senator Piatt, of N. w York,
has an enormous stock of good
conundrums, which he appar
ently originates himself, as they
all seem to be new. 'Hie senator
is said to be a natural born
joker, as well as an “Easy Boss.”
If there had been any hang
ing of aldermen in the streets of
Chicago, someone surely would
have carried the noose to Bath
House John and Hinky Dink,
two of the but-cuts in the ma
chines saw-log riff-raft.
Three hundred million dollars
aboard the Corsair when the
yacht was launched th s week—
that is, that was the wealth of
those aboar I, there being a half
dozen capitalists and about a
hundred newspaper men.
LEE’S RETURN.
Gen. Lee's return to Havana
: at the head of the advance guard
of the army of occuupation is a
fulfillment of the prophecy he
made when he sailed away from
that city a little more than seven
I months ago amid the discourte
ous gibes and jeers us the Span
ish soldiery and civilians.
Ou that occasion, the gallant
Virginian, who had won the
enmity of Blanco and his under
lings by his brave and firm atti-
I tude in upholding the demands
of his government for humanity
towards the Cubans and by hi -
vigor in protecting the rights of
I American residents against ag
gression, told some of the Span
ish officers who witnessed his
departure : “When I return in a
few months, it will be with an
American army.”
His return, however, is in the
nature of a personal triumph
over enemies who harassed him
to the limit of endurance when
he was consul general. It would
have been more gratifying,
could it nave been made while
Blanco was still in Havana, for
Blanco treated the consul gener
al with markdd discourtesy
when Lee called to bid him an
official farewell,
An intensification of the irony
of fate is shown in the fact that
Gen. Lee re-entered Havana on
the Panama, which was one of
the first prizes captured by
Sampson’s fleet at the beginning
of war
His return is timeJy in view
of the rioting and .bad blood be
tween Cubans and Spaniards, a
condition which his experience
and firmness can be utilized in
removing.
Senor A eg<nd o Iso, one of
Spain’s wealthiest men has re
cently died and has left an
immense estate to the Queen
Regent. He wanted to marry
her but had no heredet try title
and notwithstanding his great
wealth was not considered her
equal, He was intensely devot
ed to the Queen and left this
money to her untrammeled by
any conditions. It is safe to pre
dict that “Spanish “honor”
won’t prevent her roj al high
ness from accepting the money.
Col. W. J. Bryan says that
the volunteer army sheuld be
mustered out at ihe earliest pos
sible moment and a new enlist
naent should be had with the
distinct understanding that it is
for garrison duty in our newly
acquired itlande, the preference
being giyen to the volunteers
now in eervice. As usual the
young Nebraskan is right.
Prof. Lombroso’s daughter,
Paola, has been sentenced in the
criminal court of Turin to twen
ty two days’ imprisonment and
a fine of 62 lire. Her crime wns
publishing an article n a social
istic paper, in which she describ
ed the misery she herself hud
seen among the poor people and
declared ti nt the social system
which nande such evil conditions
should be overthrown,
Ex Judge Augustus • Van
Wyck, still remembered as the
brother of New York’s mayor
and the man whe was a candi
date against Roosevelt for gov
ernor ot the state, is quietly
sending around circulars an
nouncing that be has resume 1
the practice of law, Ilia friends
say he never wanted to run for
governor, and his enemies say
he never really did—though
they can’t prove it by Roosevelt.
The Jefferson Comedy Com
puny, which will soon begin a
tour in “Rip Van Winkle,” in
cludes the fvur sons of Joseph
Jefferson. They are Thomas,
Joseph, Jr., William and Charles
B. Jefferson, Edna Carey
| (Mrs. Charles B, .1 < flerson) and
Blanche Bender (Mrs. Joseph
Jefferson, Jr ,) will also Le
I
, members of the company. I
I Thomas Jefferson will plav Rip
until his father joins the compa-
I ny in April.
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NATIVE TROOPS IN THE
TROPICS.
Gen. Miles’ suggestion that
76,000 men would suffice for
the present demands upon the
regular army is coupled with'
the plan of auxiliary force of
J 6,000 men recruited in the
tropical countries now subject
4 to military occupation.
This is a new idea in our ser
vice, but the present conditions
also are new, and General Miles’
plan will strike most people as
wiser than that urged by Adju
tant General Corbin, which con
templates a regular army of
100,000 without these native
auxiliaries.
Spanish experience, as well
as our own, shows Imw danger
ous the climate of Cuba is to I
foreign soldiers and that of the
Philippines is even mere so.
Moreover we are expecting to
encourage the Cubans, if not al
so the Filipinos, to learn to gov
ern themselves, and if we can,
teach them sound m.litary meth
ods and discipline during the
time that they are immediately
under the protection of o«r ar
my.
It is possible that the organi
zation of a native armv in the
Philippines, oflisered by Ameri
cans and dominated by an
American force, would go some
way toward the solution of a
number of difficult problems
there.
In Porto Rico it would seem
that si ch a force might be veiv
easily organized and something
of this kind will be very neces
tary in Cuba.
For the time being, of course,
• sufficient garrison of regular
American troops will have to be
maintained at each of the cen
ters of population in Cuba. Gen.
Miles estimates the force requir
ed at 25,00, while the Evacua
tioa Commissioners recomm no
50,000.
In either case these men c m
not bt? kept there indefinitely, ,
even if the sanitary condition of
the island be improved, and the
orga nizafion of a native force
that can gradually relieve them
is one of th j most inqortant
suggestions that ibe military
committees of Ccogress can take
into imm diate consideration.
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